Who am I?
I am an Eco-Anthropologist specialized on community-based governance and social-environmental interactions with a particular knowledge on the challenges of transdisciplinary implementation, agro-pastoral systems, local community building and promotion of community-based management of natural resources.
My background is transdisciplinary, combining a 6 years BSc in Environmental Biology at the Autonomous University of Madrid with a 7 years PhD research in Sociocultural Anthropology at the EHESS of Paris and the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and a 2 years’ postdoc at the School of Anthropology and Conservation of Kent University (UK) among others. Today I am a Senior Researcher at the French National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS) based in Toulouse (laboratory GEODE).
I started off in 2004 studying how symbolic-religious representations and socio-material uses of the environment relate to each other in the case of Moroccan High Atlas commons (agdals), and today I focus on how to understand comparatively and the most holistically possible, community-based systems, as well as possible alleys in their support. I therefore also research ‘about’ and ‘for’ action in favor of the natural and cultural values of such community systems, notably in Morocco, France, Spain and the Balkans.
Contact: eco.anthropologies@gmail.com
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